by Doug Hammack | Nov 29, 2009 | Message Audio, Thanksgiving
by Doug Hammack Each year around the Thanksgiving holiday, we revisit the theme of gratitude and thankfulness. This ancient path, like the others we’re examining this fall, has power to transform, strengthen, and awaken our souls. ...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 22, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack We continue looking at the Divine Call to be a hospitable people to strangers and outsiders, 1200 years after the Calling of Abraham was issued. This soul-training tool is again, a powerful means to both better the earth and transform our souls...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 15, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack We continue looking at hospitality as a soul-training tool, a way to both better the earth and transform our souls. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2009/11-15-09_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 8, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack We continue looking at hospitality as a soul-training tool, a way to both better the earth and transform our souls. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2009/11-08-09_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 1, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack As we’re talking about the ancient paths that tend to the well-being of the soul, we turn to the early practice of hospitality. From the time of Abraham, this has been a central theme of spiritual people. ...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 25, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack In this lesson we look at a very practical way to turn our prayer less into words, and more into awakening to the awareness of what God is already up to. It’s a contemplative practice for daily use called The Welcoming Prayer. ...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 18, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack Many have abandoned prayer as irrelevant, incomprehensible, or useless. Sadly, there is good reason why they have done so. In this lesson we talk about how prayer has devolved into talking, talking, talking, and the underlying unspoken assumption...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 11, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack At first glance, making peace doesn’t appear to be a discipline for training one’s soul… Have a listen! https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2009/10-11-09_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 4, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack Today we lay a foundation for a series of lessons about tending the gardens of our souls. To become the kind of people other people want to be around, indeed the kind of people we ourselves want to be around, requires attentiveness to spiritual growth....
by Doug Hammack | Sep 27, 2009 | Message Audio, Tending Our Souls
by Doug Hammack Today we listen to the wisdom of one of the wise men of our Christian heritage. His name was Francois Fenelon. He lived about 400 years ago, and wrote spiritual letters, many of which have survived. In the letter we look at today, he writes about...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 20, 2009 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Doug Hammack This week I (Doug) had an appointment with one of the 12 year old girls in our community. Her mom brought her by to talk about question she has about God. She’d just been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and was asking a variation of an...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 13, 2009 | Community Meeting, Message Audio
by Doug Hammack Today we look at the pragmatics of our spiritual community; why we’re here, where we’re going, our future, our finances, and practical things we can all do to keep NRCC thriving. ...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 5, 2009 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Doug Hammack This week, my dear friend and a fixture in our spiritual community died. Jim Amundson was a letter from God, written for us to read. In today’s lesson, I discuss Divine Grace, and my text will be Jim’s life. Jim Amundson 1936-2009 A Living...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 30, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack We continue thinking about the spiriutality that is built on the foundation we’ve been looking at for many weeks. In those lessons we did some rethinking of the unquestioned assumptions that often goes into the doctrines of our faith. ...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 22, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack For many weeks, we’ve been thinking about the theology of our faith, and how our unquestioned assumptions, and the things taught us often betray us and lead us into a sickened spiritual state. Today we begin to look at how rebuild a healthy...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 15, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack In the lesson we did before the summer break, there were two Stories about how we think about Jesus “dying to save us,” that we couldn’t fit in. I thought they were beautiful enough stories that they needed to be retold, so in this...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 9, 2009 | Guest Speaker, Message Audio
by Scott Brown https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2009/8-09-09_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 2, 2009 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Scott Brown Jesus’s admonition to love our enemies and turn the other cheek may be mis-interpreted due to the lack of cultural context he placed it in. Find out what Jesus may have intended it to mean by looking for a third way to react to an insult to you....
by Doug Hammack | Jul 25, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
We conclude our lesson on thinking about what the words “Jesus died for our sins” mean. Today we look at other stories that frame our understanding besides the “penal substitution” theory of salvation. We consider the Ransom Theory, the...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 18, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
In this lesson, we look at some of the problems with the most common way Western Christians think about salvation. The “penal substitution” theory of salvation was advocated in the 11th century by a man named Anselm, and while it was an excellent way of...
